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Keziah Jones
1973 jokers reparations
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In 1973 the naira was introduced
To help the economy
But the value is kinda weak:
One naira is 0, 06 dollar
In official calculations
Before inflation
We used cowries
We all knew what things were worth
But for mirrors and beads.
The've sold us a whole nation.
You say now
wheres
all
the
money
gone?
To banks in switzerland
Where your wealth is our poverty.
A jokers reparation is kinda deep
It's got the punchline democracy
On the stage of globalisation
And now we go-a-begging
Internationally,
To the countries of our suffering
For debt relier
With no apologies
Just devalued currencies
No apologies
For jokers reparations
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